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100	1		_aMille, Pierre, _d1864-1941
245	1	0	_aQuand le rideau s'est baissé
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2026
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aRelease date is 2026-02-25
505	0		_aLe cid et sa belle-mère -- Véritable histoire de la découverte de l'Amérique -- Conte des Rois -- L'authentique aventure de Pygmalion -- Hercule et Omphale -- Extraits des mémoires de Pagello -- Le jugement de Salomon -- Quand ils revirent Antinéa -- Le laboureur et ses enfants -- Après la mort des prétendants.
508			_aLaurent Vogel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Books project.)
520			_a"Quand le rideau s'est baissé" by Pierre Mille is a collection of short stories written in the early 20th century. It playfully recasts history, epic legend, and classical myth with sharp irony, using familiar figures to expose vanity, power, faith, and the accidents behind “great” events. Expect El Cid, Columbus, the Magi, Pygmalion, and Hercules to appear in witty, anachronistic tableaux that question official versions and heroic postures. The opening of the collection offers a brisk suite of satirical tales: first, a comic aftermath to El Cid in which Chimène’s imperious mother arrives at Bivar, humiliates Rodrigue, then falls for the captive Moor Almanzor; when his ransom fails after his sons are killed, a priestly ruse saves him through marriage to the enamored countess, who cheerfully departs for Africa. Next comes a mock-scholarly “true” history of Columbus that blames the discovery on linguistic misreadings (Ka-tai/Cathay, Coubanakan/Kublai Khan), a crisis of doubt, and a council where a vow of secrecy collapses the moment gold turns up. A darker parable follows: a Magus returning from Bethlehem laments a king’s life under constant threat, spares an assassin but curses him to the same terror until the man begs for death. Then a raconteur rewrites Pygmalion so the living Galatea only ruins the sculptor’s work, and finally Hercules, reduced to Omphale’s servant, tells Daedalus how his famed labors backfired—clearing monsters to unleash worse plagues and earning oracular scorn—before the fragment breaks off. Together these beginnings establish a tone of sly revision and moral inquiry. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534			_pOriginally published: _cParis: Éditions des portiques, 1928
653			_aShort stories, French
653			_aFrench fiction -- 20th century
856	4		_uhttps://books.google.com/books?id=11Pn_cnWNKEC
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78036
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